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Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker said he was surprised that students were unhappy with the social opportunities on campus when compared to peer institutions, especially given the thriving social scene in Boston...
...impression is that the residential houses at Harvard are intended to provide some of the social opportunities that elsewhere would be provided college-wide,” Pinker wrote in an e-mail. “The intense student life of Boston, with its eight major universities and lively bar and music scene, should, I would think, obviate some of the need for students to get their social and cultural needs met on the Harvard campus...
...Pinker praised University President Lawrence H. Summers’ attempts to address undergraduate concerns about faculty availability. Pinker has been one of Summers’ most vocal supporters recently...
Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke disputed the findings of various studies used to support arguments for innate gender differences in cognition. She directed particularly vehement criticisms at Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, whose book The Blank Slate formed the basis for some of Summers’ remarks about “intrinsic aptitude...
...panelists did face a few hostile questions. One audience member took issue with the panelists’ criticisms of previous research, especially those of Pinker...